In William Wordsworth's poem "I wondered lonely as a cloud" the daffodils represent his happiness and inspiration. The daffodils make him forget about his loneliness.

The daffodils help him to forget that he doesn't have anyone and is depressed. First, he is walking alone as he notices these daffodils under trees unnoticeable as he is towards people: "I wandered lonely as a cloud/that floats on high o'er vales and hills/when all at once I saw a crowd/a host of golden daffodils/decide the lake beneath the trees/fluttering and dancing in the breeze". Next, he states that they were never-ending and dancing in the breeze: "They stretched in never-ending line/along the margin of a bay/ten thousand saw I at a glance/tossing their heads in sprightly dance". Then, he notices the waves, too, but the daffodils out do the waves and this makes him joyful: "The waves beside them danced; but they/out-did the sparkling waves in glee/a poet could not but be gay". Finally, as he lays on his couch alone he remembers the daffodils and his heart fills with joy and inspire him to dance with them: "For oft, when on my couch I lie/in vacant or in pensive mood/they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude/and then my heart with pleasure fills/and dances with the daffodils". So, a person can see how the daffodils make him happy.

In conclusion, the daffodils make his heart fill with pleasure and they also inspire him to dance, too. So, these daffodils make him feel like he isn't alone and he becomes happy because of this.

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..."IWanderedLonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth takes readers on a reminiscent journey reflecting upon visions of nature. The diction and figurative language used illustrates the poet's response to nature. He uses each stanza to share his experience in nature through the image of a dance that culminates in the poet's emotional response.
Wordsworth opens with reference to himself through simile as a part of the natural landscape, "Iwanderedlonely as a cloud / That floats on high" (Line 1). The diction used in the opening simile puts the reader in the poet's state of mind. A cloud is a lightweight, free-flowing image. Cloud paired with the action "floats", lets the reader experience the tranquility and lightheartedness the author feels in the presence of nature. "Lonely" in this verse does not carry a negative connotation; one can read this line as peaceful solitude as opposed to loneliness. Wordsworth observes that he is not alone, viewing "A host, of golden daffodils" (4). Wordsworth is using a metaphor to compare the daffodils to a crowd of people or a host of angels. The words "golden" and "host" create a visual image of the flowers' petals shimmering like golden halos. The imagery is one of light in a visual and emotional sense, which will be repeated in various forms in future stanzas. The poet...

...﻿IWanderedLonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth
Iwanderedlonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
The speaker says that, wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, he encountered a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering flowers stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the waves of the lake danced beside the flowers, the daffodils outdid the water in glee. The speaker says that a poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers....

...IWanderedLonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth（1770-1850）
I. His Life
1770 — born in Cumberland, now called Wordsworth House
1779 - 1787 — attended the Grammar School
1787-1791 — studied at St John's College, Cambridge
1790 — visited revolutionary France and supported
1793 —published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches
1795 — met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset.
1797 — moved to Somerset with his sister Dorothy
1798 — produced Lyrical Ballads together with Coleridge
1799 —moved to Grasmere in the Lake District, with fellow poet Robert Southey（1774-1843 nearby.
Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge came to be known as “Lake Poets” （“湖畔派”诗人）.
1804 — decay of Both Coleridge's health and his relationship to Wordsworth
mid-1810s — decline in his works
1813 — moved to Rydal Mount where he spent the rest of his life.
1847 — his production of poetry came to a standstill.
1850 — William Wordsworth died in Rydal Mount.
William Wordsworth wrote some 70,000 lines of verse, 40,000 lines more than
any other poet.
II. His Reputation
one of the most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets
the leading figure of the English romantic poetry
Literary Giant
England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850
often viewed as a “nature poet”
III. His principles of poetry
In the Preface to the...

...Abstract: William Wordsworth, as the leading figure of the English Romantic Movement in poetry, has made great contribution in poetic theory. His poetic beliefs and achievements have always been the focus of literary studies. In this paper, his most representative poem “ IWanderedLonely as a Cloud” is closely examined to demonstrate how Wordsworth applies his poetic principles to his own creations, especially how Wordsworth realize the fusion of reality and strong emotion in this poem by using his great imagination.
Key Words: William Wordsworth, IWanderedLonely as a Cloud, poetic principles, language, imagination
William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry, the focal voice of the romantic period. The most important contribution he has made is in the field of poetic theory. He thinks that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”, and poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”. His poetic principles are well illustrated in the preface to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth, p.159):
“The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring...

...“IWanderedLonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (p. 533)
Part A. Define the following literary terms.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
rhythm (p. 530)
meter (p. 530)
iamb (p. 531)
foot (p. 531)
scanning (p. 531)
tetrameter: a poetic line that contains four feet
Part B. Pre-reading: Read “William Wordsworth” on page 534. Answer the following questions in complete
sentences.
1. What did Wordsworth believe was the best teacher?
2. What did Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge use as subjects for their poetry?
3. According to Wordsworth, when does poetry “begin”?
4. Who was Dorothy, and what did she and Wordsworth do together?
Part C. Pre-reading: “I Never Saw Daffodils So Beautiful” by Dorothy Wordsworth on page 535. Answer the
following questions in complete sentences.
1. Who do you think the “we “represents in this journal account?
2. When did this experience occur?
3. What do Dorothy and the others see?
4. What happens to them at the end of the journal entry?
Part D. Read and paraphrase the poem on the worksheet provided. Use the glossary below to help you
understand the poem.
Part E. Thinking Critically. Answer these questions in complete sentences.
1. What is the speaker’s mood in stanza 1?
2. What does he see “all at once”?
3. How does the speaker’s mood change that day because of what he sees?
4. How does the memory of what he saw affect him later?
5. List at least two phrases in the poem that personify the...

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Critical Analysis of “IWanderedLonely as a Cloud” and “The Facebook Sonnet”
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When reading “IWanderedLonely as a Cloud” I am left with a feeling of delight. Wordsworth used words like “fluttering” “glee” and “bliss” to describe his lonesome walk through a meadow. After leaving the meadow, he thinks of this day when he is sitting at home, engaged in thought, and is still enlightened by the memory of the dancing daffodils. This is shown with his last stanza, “…when on my couch I lie/ they flash upon (me)/then my heart with...

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YANGON UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Tutorial III
Literature (ENG 3104)
Poet
“Iwanderedlonely as a cloud” is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It’s also commonly known as “Daffodils”. He was born in 7 April 1770, at Cockermouth Kingdom of Great Britain. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 8- this experience shapes much of his later work. Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School where his love of poetry is firmly established and believed, he made his first attempt at verse.
After his final semester, he set out on a walking tour of Europe, an experience that influenced both his poetry and his political sensibilities. During his tour in France, he published his earliest poetry in 1793 in the collections “An Evening Walk” and “Descriptive Sketches”.
He was died in 23 April 1850, at the age of 80. His major occupation is a poet, especially an English romantic poet. Some of his notable works are Lyrical Ballads, Poems in two volumes, The Excursion, The Prelude.
The earlier Lyrical Ballads had been first published in 1798 and had started the Romantic Movement in England. It had brought Wordsworth and the other Lake poets into the poetic limelight. The Prelude was a semi-biography poem which he revised and expanded a number of times.
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